Summary

So you made it to the end of this chapter! You reviewed how modern cloud infrastructure is heavily reliant on important elements, each critical to its functionality and efficiency. When selecting the location for a data center, organizations must decide whether to build a new facility or purchase an existing one, taking into account factors such as cost, scalability, and proximity to users. Optimizing data center operations involves managing environmental influences such as heat and humidity to ensure optimal performance and energy efficiency. Additionally, secure logical mechanisms are essential for CSPs to segregate resources among multiple tenants, ensuring proper data flow and maintaining data security and privacy across shared environments.

For the exam, make sure you know the cloud platform components: physical environment, network, storage, compute, virtualization, and management plane. More importantly, you should understand their roles and how they interconnect...